moralizer

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Noun
  • One recent Sunday evening, about 200 filled a Cincinnati church where preachers from several faith backgrounds urged them to demand his freedom.
    Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Their uncompromising moral clarity shaped the conscience of the West, later echoed by Christian preachers crusading for abolition, civil rights, and human dignity.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • He’s known for brash takes on politics and appears to relish taking down moralists and elitists.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 20 July 2025
  • But Kehlmann the moralist is also an irrepressible trickster, an endlessly fertile maker of fictional modes.
    David Denby, New Yorker, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • Fall foliage appears when leaves change from green to yellow, orange, and red, then falls from the trees, said Brandon Fuller, a doctoral candidate and lecturer in the biology department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC).
    Saleen Martin, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The festival is the brainchild of UNC Charlotte lecturer and Oz expert Dina Schiff Massachi.
    Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The beat-bread-and-fry blueprint is so well-established that even a dab of mustard is a dicey proposition among pork puritans.
    Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Centuries after being burned at the stake, a witch named Jennifer (Veronica Lake) magically reappears and tries to torment the descendant of the puritan who led the charge against her — only to fall in love with him.
    Clark Collis, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Her suggestions beg for readers to flag pages with sticky notes for future inspiration.
    Janine MacLachlan, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • For readers not well-versed in PC gaming, frame generation features look at two frames that your GPU has rendered and then uses machine-learning algorithms to generate a frame in between them.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Reconciliation today Searching for a path forward, contemporary Sámi artist and Lutheran catechist Lars Levi Sunna began to produce church art that incorporated and celebrated pre-Christian Sámi symbols – some of the very traditions that had been demonized by clergy of the past.
    Thomas A. DuBois, The Conversation, 27 June 2025
  • But Philip Siphong Onphitak, the village religious teacher, or catechist, assumed leadership of his flock, keeping up resistance until Dec. 16, when he was murdered in the jungle, reportedly by Boonlue.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2019
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“Moralizer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moralizer. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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